Persian manuscript on paper, two lines of nasta'liq script in black ink from a prose text within cloudbands against a ground of intertwining floral motifs in colours and gold, borders above and below each consisting of three panels containing ghazals from the poetry of Hafiz, laid down on an album page with finely-illuminated borders with gold floral motifs on a cream ground
text area 73 x 189 mm.; album page 225 x 337 mm.

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Provenance
Kirkor Minassian, New York, 1930s-40s (label verso).
Adrienne Minassian, New York, 1950s.
The collection of Stuart Cary Welch (see Sotheby's, The Stuart Cary Welch Collection, Part One: Arts of the Islamic World, 6th April 2011, lot 49).
Private UK collection.

Exhibited
Persian Art, The Iranian Institute, New York, 1940 (label verso).

Published
Arts from the Land of Timur: an exhibition from a Scottish Private Collection, Paisley 2012, p. 262, no. 489.

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An album page with calligraphy in nasta'liq script Persia, circa 1600

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